ietf-xml-mime
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

2003-09-19 17:28:51

Can you explain what in particular you like about the CSS
mechanism? 

I like the CSS mechanism because it appears at the very beginning.

Do you expect that all formats would use exactly
the same character sequence, or only that they would use
the same structure?

An optimistic answer to the first question is yes, although it may 
be more practical to provide a bit of flexibility (e.g.,   @
as well as #).  The structure and the semantics should be standardized.  
At present, everything is a hopeless mess.

Although I suggested this approach, I still feel uneasy about in-band 
encoding declarations.  I'm trying to generalize them only because 
I believe ad-hoc mechanisms are worse.

Cheers,

Makoto